This document discusses modern slavery and the role of crowds in combating it. It defines modern slavery and estimates that over 45 million people worldwide are enslaved. It notes that the populations of New York City, London, and Delhi combined is less than the total number of enslaved people globally. Around 70% of slaves are used for labor and 30% for sex trafficking. The document outlines campaigns and actions taken by crowds to pressure governments and organizations to help free slaves and combat slavery. It provides examples of successful campaigns to free anti-slavery activists in Mauritania and pressure the UN to take action against ISIS for slavery. The document suggests crowds may be emerging as a new type of global superpower through their ability

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MOTAGUAPRESENTATION

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Is The Crowd The World's Newest Super Power?

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A superpower is a state that cannot be ignored on the
world stage and without whose cooperation no world
problem can be solved.

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Sex
Trafficking
Child Slavery Domestic
Slavery
Forced
Marriage
Forced Labor
Modern Slavery exists when a person is:
• Forced to work - through mental or physical threat or abuse.
• Owned or controlled by an 'employer‘ – through mental or physical threat or abuse.
• Dehumanized and treated as a commodity or bought and sold as 'property‘.
• Physically constrained or has restrictions placed on his/her freedom of movement.
*Anti-Slavery International
What Is Modern Slavery?

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Truth: # Million Enslaved?*
The top 10 countries:
1. India
2. China
3. Pakistan
4. Bangladesh
5. Uzbekistan
6. North Korea
7. Russia
8. Nigeria
9. DRC
10. Indonesia
*According to Global Slavery Index and Gallup 2016.
45.8 Million People

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London
Approximately 8 million
Delhi
Approximately 9 million
NYC
Approximately 8 million
There are more enslaved people throughout the world than the combined population of:
NYC + London + Delhi

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Bringing it home

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45,839,600
How Does This Relate to My Life?

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LABOR
70%
SEX
30%
How Does This Relate to My Life?

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Products Of Slavery
We are the ones buying the goods made by the hands of those enslaved.

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Most Modern Slavery looks like this:

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99 campaigns
for the
Movement to
take action
Nearly 7,000
dedicated activists
volunteering their
time and skills
Nearly
Two Million
email
subscribers
70+ partner
organizations
across the world
Six Million
Facebook
followers
Our Community Today
+17,000,000 actions
(petitions signed, emails send, letters written, volunteers)

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FREE MAURITANIA’S
ANTI-SLAVERY ACTIVISTS
Challenge: FREE Biram Abeid
and Brahim Ramdhane from
prison for their work in the
anti-slavery movement.
Approach: We sent 213,233 messages to the Mauritanian government,
694 calls were made to Mauritanian Embassies, 13,212 messages were
sent to members of European Parliament, $4,800 was raised for trial
observer, and 4,768 messages were sent to Biram in prison.
Outcome: After 18 months in a Mauritania prison, these two anti-slavery
activists were freed from captivity in May 2016 on their second appeal.
UNITED NATIONS
AND ISIS
Challenge: ISIS holds
over 7,000 women and
children in slavery from
the Yazidi region.
Approach: Call on the UN Security Council to begin investigating ISIS
and their role in modern slavery. We delivered 88,000 signatures to the
Spanish Mission of the UN and helped draft a resolution to convince
the Security Council this should be a priority.
Outcome: December 23, 2017 there was a unanimous decision to
enact the resolution and go after ISIS for crimes of modern slavery.
Case Studies of Our Work

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Our Role In The Movement

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Organize

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The Apathy to Abolition Continuum
Focus on the Individual

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Is The Crowd The World's Newest Super Power?

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&

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“
Why did you not
come sooner?
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